Ernest Hemingway

A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again.

Ernest Hemingway

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

Ernest Hemingway

A writer’s problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

Ernest Hemingway

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

Ernest Hemingway

After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

Ernest Hemingway

All bad writers are in love with the epic.

Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

Ernest Hemingway

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Ernest Hemingway

All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

Ernest Hemingway

Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.

Ernest Hemingway